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Civil War
- heated debates in Boston over the abolition of slavery helped start this war
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Undersea cable-laying successfully completed
Queen Victoria and President James Buchanan toasted to "England and America united" -
Telegraph had been used for more than 20 years (by the time Alec arrived in Canada)
-telegraph part of emerging commercial infrastructure -
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Second wave of Industrial Revolution occurring
-to produce technological, electrical, chemical inventions (not just mechanical)
-10 million people came to see it in 4 months -
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Gilded Age